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The Economic Report on Africa 2009 (ERA 2009) is organized into two parts. Part I examines global economic developments and their implication for Africa, analyses recent economic and social trends, and highlights emerging development challenges to the continent in 2008. Part II is devoted to the issue of regional value challenges to developing African agriculture. ERA 2009 then focuses on the question of how to enhance structural transformation of African agriculture through systematic efforts to develop regionally integrated value chains and markets for selected strategic food and agricultural commodities. Finally, the report urges African governments to operationalize commitments to develop agriculture, and suggests strategies that promote viable value chains at the national and regional levels.

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United Nations. Economic and Social Council; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. African Centre for Women; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Subregional Development Centre for Southern Africa (ECA/SRDC-SA)

United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Regional Cooperation and Integration Division; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Regional Cooperation and Integration Division; Organized jointly by the Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on trade and development, the African Economic Research Consortium, and the Southern Africa Trade Research Network